AFAP wouldn't have negotiated such a poor agreement!
They either weren't involved or left the table!
Fair comment, I think, FMC.
Leads me to wonder, did the AFAP even know these 'negotiations' were on? Or did Cobham muddy the waters to get a favourable 'agreement' without talking to the pilot group (who haven't been selected yet) or even negotiating with the usual Pilot's industrial representative, the AFAP?
Where does this leave SAR Pilots, when they are eventually chosen? Do they have to join the TWU now for industrial representation, and does the TWU have anything to offer the pilots, since the TWU has no aviation technical expertise? Is AFAP membership of any use now to a pilot with an eye to these positions?
It's difficult to see a future employee ballot allow AFAP representation now; since, for the SAR Pilot positions, the employee group has been diluted & swamped by other categories, now called SAR Air Crew: (Captain, Co-Pilot, Aircraft Mission Coordinator, Drop Master & Visual Observer) making a ballot to allow the AFAP in the workplace problematic at best